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A

SHORT ACCOUNT

OF THE

FIRST PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL

BY THE APOSTLES,

BEING A CONTINUATION OF

CONVERSATIONS ON THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST,"
BY A MOTHER.

Mrs. Whately.

LONDON:

B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET,

AND

J. HARRIS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following pages were employed by the Author in the instruction of her own children, immediately after the "Conversations." They will consequently be found adapted to children a very little older. She may be permitted to add, that the plan of introducing young minds to the doctrines of Christianity in the way which its first

promulgators adopted, viz. through the study of the historical facts connected with it, she has found to be attended with the most encouraging

success.

A SHORT ACCOUNT

OF THE

FIRST PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL.

My dear children wish to know what became of the Apostles after our Lord Jesus Christ left them;how a few poor, ignorant, timorous men, as they were, could obey their Lord's command, to " go and teach all nations," or, if they did attempt to do so, how it was that they should get whole nations to listen to them,